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More context: General Terauchi Hisaichi, commander of Japan's Southern Expeditionary Army Group, drew up plans in early August 1945 for mass execution of all Allied prisoners of war. In some camps, machine guns were being put in place when news of surrender arrived.
The sourcing of this claim is pretty bad, as an aside. But even if it were true, I don't think it absolves people from thinking carefully about the history here. One does not measure the appropriateness of one's own conduct by the lowest of the lows.
(Imagine if you flipped this around — Did the US burning ~100,000 civilians in Tokyo with napalm absolve the Japanese from doing terrible things in its goal to prosecute the war, or from thinking seriously about its own actions later? Obviously not.)
Correct to some extent. I am not assigning guilt or blame, or excusing anything, but explaining the sentiments at the time. I remain undecided about the propriety of the use of the A-bombs. I admit some bias as my late father served as an infantry officer in 4 Pacific campaigns.
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